Best Books of 2020-2022
These are my favourite books that I’ve read over the past 3 years, since I started keeping a record of what I’ve been reading. I’ve gone for some separation of categories to make it easier to peruse.
Fiction
Series
The Expanse - James S.A. Corey - Features 9 full length novels and 1 collection of short stories
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells - Features 5 novellas and 1 full length novel (so far)
The Broken Earth - N.K. Jemisin - features 3 novels
Oxford Time Travel - Connie Willis - features 3 novels
Remembrance of Earth’s Past - Liu Cixin - features 3 primary novels
Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons - features 4 primary novels
Imperial Radch - Ann Leckie - features 3 primary novels
Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine - features 2 primary novels
The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee - features 3 primary novels
Earthseed - Octavia E. Butler - features 2 primary novels
Speculative
Historical & Epic
Contemporary
Non-Fiction
Nature, Science, Medicine
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest - Suzanne Simard
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter - Ben Goldfarb
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez
Social Justice, Intersectionality